The explosive dangers of China have once again been amply illustrated by this widely circulated video of a manhole cover being blown skywards in a huge explosion, with an unfortunate man being sent flying by the force of the explosive gases released.

The video, which shows a 20kg manhole cover being blown sky high and the man having his clothes blown off and being flung several metres from the blast.

The incident was caused by a sewer gas explosion in China’s Hunan province, and was captured on a security camera.

The man suffered serious burns, but survived, whilst his sons are said to have escaped injury.

The GIF needs to have ChuChu’s really quickly running into the manhole and then when it launches you’ll see the rocket underneath the cap. I swear I’ll freaking do it one day if I ever get decent at shopping/animating it in.

High above the Hunan province in China was a large white bird of unknown origin. From the bird came a small white block and fell into a manhole upon which it morphed into a spider like insect. From the huge bird in the sky came a voice:

Geijutsu wa Bakuhatsu da.. KATSU!!!

*Manhole explodes and injures an innocent passerby*

“Tch, I thought it was Sasuke. Couldn’t see so well through the clouds”

I have an urge to stand on those manholes. This is like what? The 16th manhole explosion news I’ve seen so far in random countries. All we need to do is take advantage of this new transport mechanism and we can get to higher places or fast travel.

Sewer explosions do sometimes happen and aren’t unique to China. Back in 2001 the sewers of downtown Baltimore, MD exploded while they were doing construction on the rail system (someone goofed). In reaction they had to open all the fire hydrants to flood the streets (and thus the sewers), which in turn chased all of the rats and vermin up to the surface. Good times.

What makes this story appropriate for this site is that it’s anime-related. This all happened during the second day of 2001’s Otacon. ;-]

This reminds me of an experience I had in the Netherlands during a thunderstorm. Apparently it caused pressure differences between two distant parts of a sewer, making a hinged manhole cover that looked like it’d be several times my own weight violently slam open and shut. The *clunk clunk* sound was really something.

Well considering the many who light one while passing methane themselves, it doesn’t surprise me that this happened. People still get easily amused seeing fire and explosions I guess. This would probably end up on Mythbusters.

Well, partially….. if methane builds up in a sewer system, a lit match somewhere can make it explode. However, they are supposed to be built with multiple ways for the methane to escape so that doesn’t happen.

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